John Strand

John Gregory Strand is a contemporary American playwright. At times he has published under the name "J.G. Strand". Among his plays are ''Lincolnesque'', ''Three Nights in Tehran'', ''The Diaries'', ''Otabenga'', and ''The Originalist''. ''Tom Walker'' is an adaption of ''The Devil and Tom Walker'' by Washington Irving. He has also written a number of English-language adaptions of plays written in French: among these are ''Lovers and Executioners'' (Antoine Jacob de Montfleury's ''La Femme Juge et Partie''); ''The Miser'' (Molière); ''Lorenzaccio'' (Alfred de Musset); ''Hat!'' (Eugène Labiche's ''Un Chapeau de Paille d'Italie''); and ''Hernani'' (Victor Hugo). In 1985 he launched (along with Kathy Acker, Eduard Limonov, and Bernard-Henri Lévy) a Paris-based literary magazine called ''Paris Exiles''. A novel, ''Commieland'', appeared in 2013. Provided by Wikipedia